Etch-A-Sketch has finally responded to the political flap over the popular kid's toy. Mitt Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom provided some free publicity for the company after claiming that the presidential wannabee's positions would shift more moderate during a general election "like an Etch-A-Sketch." The company put out two ads yesterday with the tagline "Etch-A-Sketch is proud to be a part of the national conversation."

The Catholic bishops' anti-poverty foundation is threatening to de-fund Compa&ntiled;eros, a leading immigrant rights org in Colorado, because the org joined a statewide coalition the opposes anti-LGBT discrimination. The organization stands to lose half of their funding if the church pulls out, but Compa&ntiled;eros is standing firm on the side of equality. Isn't it interesting that Christ told his followers to be charitable, but the church is now using it a weapon against the poor and needy?

Latino civil rights org Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) has endorsed the push to get President Obama to issue an ENDA-type executive order forbidding government contractors from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity. Freedom To Work's online petition to Obama collected over 110,000 signatures but no LGBT orgs have endorsed it yet thanks to in-fighting and turf defense. Yup, the orgs supposedly looking out for our community's civil rights refuse to endorse a civil rights measure that would protect thousands of LGBT workers because they can't play well with a new organization. Huh. That sounds familiar, doesn't it?

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